Why should you consider Fujitsu for your data centre needs?

Nowadays IT infrastructure buyers need solutions that are Fast (which drives efficiency), Simple (complex just does not cut it today), Reliable (downtime is no longer acceptable) and Affordable (it must be value for money) – these are rightly the key focus areas of the Fujitsu data centre strategy.

Core technology and Partnerships

At the heart of the Fujitsu portfolio is the PRIMERGY server range that delivers industry leading performance and reliability, and the ETERNUS storage platform which provides a broad feature set with a focus on low cost per TB/IOPS and high levels of availability. Specific storage features include:

Single OS/architecture from entry level to enterprise

Replication between different arrays regardless of model and generation

Automated Tiering and Flash Caching (hybrid only)

De-duplication and Compression

Automated Quality of Service

Data Encryption (Controller and/or SED based)

Integrated storage cluster to enable continuous availability

State-of-the-art VMware and Hyper-V integration

Leading SPC benchmark performance

For both PRIMERGY and ETERNUS, Fujitsu is an industry leader in reliability and to back this up they provide a unique Reliability Promise that will provide a full refund should a hardware defect covered by the warranty occur within one year of purchase.

Partnerships have always been key to Fujitsu, they were VMware’s second OEM partner back in 2002 and since then they have continued to VMware optimise and integrate their portfolio. In addition if you are a NetApp customer it is good to know that there is a 20 year history of Fujitsu and NetApp collaboration and that Fujitsu engineers support NetApp storage in EMEA – this makes PRIMERGY the perfect server platform to use with NetApp FAS/AFF, E-Series and SolidFire.

Converged and Hyper-converged Infrastructure

When it comes to data centre technologies most organisations today will consider one of the following architectures:

Traditional – separate servers, storage and network switches

Converged Infrastructure – a pre-built stack (reference architecture) of servers, storage and network switches with a single point of support

This is an area where Fujitsu leads the market in terms of choice, in addition to traditional options they also have the following CI/HCI solutions:

PRIMEFLEX for VMware vSphere (PRIMERGY servers and ETERNUS storage)

NFLEX (PRIMERGY servers and NetApp FAS/AFF storage)

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud on PRIMERGY

PRIMEFLEX for VMware vSAN

PRIMEFLEX for Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct

Data Protection and Management

As can be seen from the CI/HCI solutions a key part of Fujitsu’s strategy is to leverage best of breed partner technologies in combination with their own, this is also extended to their data protection offerings which are powered by Commvault.

Commvault provides an industry leading hybrid cloud unified Information and data management solution (including Office 365 backup and GDPR sensitive data governance) and Fujitsu provides the server and storage platforms – as always with Fujitsu it is all about choice, so you have a number of options:

Purchase the hardware from Fujitsu and install separate Commvault software

Mark Burgess has worked in IT since 1984, starting as a programmer on DEC VAX systems, then moving into PC software development using Clipper and FoxPro. From here he moved into network administration using Novell NetWare, which kicked-off his interest in storage. In 1999 he co-founded SNS, a consultancy firm initially focused on Novell technologies, but overtime Virtualisation and Storage. Mark writes a popular blog, is a frequent contributor to Twitter and other popular Virtualisation and Storage blog sites and has recently become a member of the NetApp United team.